2.17 Alpha and Beta Particles – Easy Hard Science

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syllabus

Isotopes, Half Lives & Radiation
- 1.1 Welcome to Nuclear Chemistry
- 1.2 Topics and Lessons
- 1.3 Parts of an Atom
- 1.4 How Many Neutrons in Carbon?
- 1.5 Weight or Mass Numbers
- 1.6 Relative Amounts for Isotopes
- 1.7 Radiation
- 1.8 Are You Radioactive?
- 1.9 The Carbon-14 Cycle for Living Things
- 1.10 Radiocarbon Dating
- 1.11 Using Carbon Dating
- 1.12 Half Life and Exponential Decay
- 1.13 Half Lives for Carbon and Uranium Isotopes
- 1.14 Strong and Weak Nuclear Forces
- 1.15 Homework #1
Nuclear Fission
- 2.1 Welcome to Lesson 2
- 2.2 Transmutation and Fission
- 2.3 Nuclear Chemistry
- 2.4 20th Century Geopolitics
- 2.5 Making Electricity
- 2.6 Uranium Isotopes
- 2.7 Notation for Isotopes
- 2.8 Notation for Subatomic Particles
- 2.9 Centrifuge
- 2.10 Nuclear Energy & The Environment
- 2.11 Nuclear Waste
- 2.12 U-235 Nuclear Reactor
- 2.13 Chain Reactions
- 2.14 Alpha and Beta Minus Decay
- 2.15 U-235 (Natural) Decay Series
- 2.16 The Band of Stability
- 2.17 Alpha and Beta Particles
- 2.18 U-238 Decay Series
- 2.19 Beta Plus and Beta Minus Decay
Nuclear Fusion
- 3.1 Welcome to Lesson 3
- 3.2 Naturally Occurring Elements
- 3.3 Plutonium Discovered
- 3.4 UC Berkeley Labs Parking Lot
- 3.5 Cyclotrons
- 3.6 The H-Bomb
- 3.7 Hydrogen Isotopes
- 3.8 Hydrogen-2 and Hydrogen-3 Fusion
- 3.9 Fusion as an Energy Source
- 3.10 Fusion Reactions in the Sun
- 3.11 The Positron
- 3.12 And The Crowd Goes Wild for Cold Fusion
Nuclear Chemistry Technologies
- 4.1 Welcome to Lesson 4
- 4.2 Look, Mom, Fusion!
- 4.3 Radium Girls
- 4.4 Fiesta Ware
- 4.5 Geiger Counter
- 4.6 Marie Curie
- 4.7 Radon Gas
- 4.8 Nuclear Medicine
- 4.9 Barium and X-rays
- 4.10 PEM and SPECT
- 4.11 Radiation & Proton Therapies
- 4.12 A Neutron Beam
- 4.13 Time in Space
- 4.14 Nuclear Fuel in Space
- 4.15 Nuclear Submarine
- 4.16 Leave Your Comments
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